[Freedombox-discuss] objectives

[Rob van der Hoeven]

> > For what it's worth, one target of the initial reference implementation
> > will be the "Dream Plug" from Globalscale Technologies, for the simple
> > reason that the foundation has ordered a number of these to use for
> > development and to meet the commitments made to our Kickstarter donor
> > group.  More on this later.
> 
> True and I think the Dream Plug is an excellent device. I've had a few
> discussions with the company over some of the projects I'm working on
> and I was pretty impressed. What really wowed me (aside from the tech)
> was that the person who answered the phone was the person I needed to
> speak to about my project. She was knowledgeable and I got the idea
> that she was somehow involved in engineering. That impressed me and
> made me think even more highly of GlobalScale.
> 

I think it is fine to use the Dream Plug for a reference implementation.
It would be a grave mistake to recommend this device to the general
public. Wrote an article on my blog about this:

http://freedomboxblog.nl/free-hardware-for-the-freedombox-software/

Rob van der Hoeven
http://freedomboxblog.nl/